E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Evergreen perennial forming long or spreading mats, or rarely cushionlike mats, up to 6 cm in diameter and 1.5-4 cm tall.

Leaves:
Linear or linear-lanceolate, 2.5-4 (4.5) mm long, 0.5-0.6 mm wide, in alternate pseudowhorls of 4 (on lateral branches) and 6 (on main stem), margins fringed with long hairs, the hairs transparent, spreading with white, whitish or transparent, short-hairy, 0.5-1 (1.5) mm long bristle tips.

Cones:
Unstalked, strongly quadrangular, 0.5-3.5 mm long. 1-1.25 mm wide; sporophylls narrowly triangular; margins fringed or slightly toothed with long bristle tips.

Notes:
This species was discovered in 2001 in the Peace River area and is a western range extension of the species in North America (Douglas et al. 2002).